Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

Catherynne M. Valente

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LifeLoveHeartRestMy LifePlay

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams

HopeFreedomPeopleWritingThinking

I'm not a sex symbol.

Jenny McCarthy

SexSymbolSex Symbol

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Stephen Hunter

AmazingYouForgottenOnlyMinutes

Zika is spread by mosquitos. They are tough to control. It will bite four or five people at one blood meal. They can breed in the amount of water it takes to fill up a bottle cap or, theoretically, even a drop of water. You have to get rid of maybe 90% of them or more before you protect people.

Tom Frieden

WaterPeopleControlToughYouCap

I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.

Monique Coleman

RelationshipCuteThinkEnoughBoy

The mobile industry changed Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

AfricaIndustryMobileChanged

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

Jason Blum

GreatDayWinStoryActingAlways

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Jason Marsden

ReadingThinkYouPersonImportant

I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth' kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love - and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.

Jonathan Jackson

LoveTruthGraceBelieveSomeone

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

Donna Rice

DayMeDinnerNightPhoneGroup

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Christopher Walken

LifeThinkMy LifeLuckyLittle

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Brendan Behan

JudgeSaidEverythingOutPrettyHe

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